The Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams recently hosted an
introductory workshop on the SPARQL query language and the Wikidata Query
Service.
We made the video stream <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaMdh4fXy18> and
materials
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Workshop>
(demo
queries, slidedecks) from this workshop publicly available.
Guest speakers:
- Ruben Verborgh, *Ghent University* and *Linked Data Fragments*
- Benjamin Good, *Scripps Research Institute* and *Gene Wiki*
- Tim Putman, *Scripps Research Institute* and *Gene Wiki*
- Lucas, *@WikidataFacts*
Dario and Stas
*Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
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